Sujet : Re: "Red" And The DoD Language Competition
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.adaDate : 13. Sep 2024, 00:27:54
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:57:33 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message
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Don't you wonder why people insist on returning "403
Forbidden" for those using a command-line tool like wget?
Most SEO tools and other
useless/criminal scrapers like to fake their identification, and WGet is
a favorite for that task. There are many owners that block that and many
other abused user-agents.
That doesn’t make any sense, because anybody who knows how to use wget
would know about its “--user-agent” option. So if they really were using
wget to conduct their site abuse, you wouldn’t know, and blocking wget’s
default user-agent setting wouldn’t help.
(The Ada-Auth.org blocks about 20 user-agents, but not WGet.
Which kind of proves my point.
“Red” And The DoD Language Competition
Re: “Red” And The DoD Language Competition